Blog Archive
December 2016
Fri Dec 30
They Don’t Make Kids’ Movies Like This Anymore: The Flight of the Navigator
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
The Excellent But Forgotten Ponies of The Hobbit
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Wanderlust and Writing: Following Your Blood Compass
by Mark Tompkins
8 Huge Adult Ideas Taught to Us By the SFF Movies of Our Childhoods
by Emmet Asher-Perrin and Leah Schnelbach
The Tremendous Continuity of Science Fiction in Conversation With Itself
by Jo Walton
Thu Dec 29
Finding Nerdy Common Ground with Tie-In Fiction
by Sam Sykes
Preparing Your Book Event: A Step-by-Step Guide for New Authors
by Lish McBride
Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch / Holy Rewatch Batman! Extra: Alexander the Great
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Warbreaker Reread: Chapter 11
by Alice Arneson
Forbidden Love, Not Forbidden Lust: Of Course Jedi Can Have Sex
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Books Coming in 2017 That We Want to Read Now, Please
by Stubby the Rocket
Wed Dec 28
Animagi En Route to Mount Greylock: My Road Trip to Ilvermorny
by Jason Denzel
Lifting Up the Enchanter’s Robe: Robert Nye’s Merlin
by Matthew Keeley
Holy Rewatch Batman! Extra: “Batgirl” and “Wonder Woman” Promo Shorts
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
19 SFF Stories That Take a Positive View of Religion
by Leah Schnelbach
Five Books Starring Asexual Protagonists
by Stubby the Rocket
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Movies and TV We’re Looking Forward to in 2017
by Stubby the Rocket
Tue Dec 27
Cooking a Bigass Piece of Meat: A Fantastical, Magical Process
by Robert Jackson Bennett
A Matter of Perspective: The Unreal and the Real by Ursula K. Le Guin
by Em Nordling
Carrie Fisher, 1956-2016
by Tor.com
Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch Extra: Incubus
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
What’s Your Strength Rating in Dungeons & Dragons?
by Bella Wang
Sleeps With Monsters: Books I’m Looking Forward To In 2017 (That I Have Heard Of So Far And Remember)
by Liz Bourke
Archivist Wasp to Pern: Five Potentially Amazing SFF Adaptations That Need To Happen
by Foz Meadows
Mon Dec 26
He’s Been Away a While, But He’s Back Now. Doctor Who: “The Return of Doctor Mysterio”
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Don’t Touch That Dial: Winter 2016 TV
by Alex Brown
Rereading Katherine Kurtz: Camber the Heretic, Chapters 22-23
by Judith Tarr
Holy Rewatch Batman! Extra: The Green Hornet
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Crossing Television’s Threshold To Find Aliens Among Us
by Theodore Krulik
The Collapsing Empire: Prologue
by John Scalzi
Robert Jordan: The American Tolkien
by Michael Livingston
Fri Dec 23
Holy Rewatch Batman! “The Unkindest Tut of All”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Just Hear Those Slay Bells Jingling
by Grady Hendrix
The Most Important Books We’ve Been Given for Christmas
by Stubby the Rocket
The Medieval Origins of Xmas
by Michael Livingston
Thu Dec 22
Captain Picard Singing a Holiday Classic? Make It So!
by Stubby the Rocket
Top Comic Books of 2016
by Alex Brown
The Call of the Sea: Disney’s Moana
by Mari Ness
“I Was a Schmuck! And Now, I’m Not a Schmuck!”: Scrooged
by Leigh Butler
Warbreaker Reread: Chapter 10
by Alice Arneson
Before the Last Breath: Revealing The End of the Day by Claire North
by Niall Alexander
Every Year, Santa Brings Us One Important Thing: Real Magic
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
What’s the First Line of the Book You’re Reading Right Now?
by Stubby the Rocket
The Morning in Publishing: December 22, 2016
by Stubby the Rocket
Lights, Please? A Charlie Brown Christmas and the Search for Holiday Truths
by Leah Schnelbach
Wed Dec 21
Gilded Cage
by Vic James
Five Books with Fantastical and Fearsome Landscapes
by Erin Summerill
The Same Thing We Do Every Aeon, Brain: Bentley Little’s “Petohtalrayn”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Pull List: Interdimensional Theater Geeks and Roadtripping Witches
by Alex Brown
A Noir-Tinted Space Opera: After the Crown by K.B. Wagers
by Liz Bourke
Terry Brooks is Bringing the Shannara Series to an End
by Natalie Zutter
The Non-Holiday Movies We Always End Up Watching Over the Holidays
by Stubby the Rocket
The Eagles of Middle-earth: Tolkien’s Special Ops
by Jeff LaSala
The Morning in Publishing: December 21, 2016
by Leah Schnelbach
The Thing About Growing up in Jokertown
by Carrie Vaughn
Tue Dec 20
Tor’s Best- and Worst-Selling Author: A Conversation Between Tom Doherty and L.E. Modesitt Jr.
by Stefan Raets
Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “More Tribbles, More Troubles”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Is Survival Victory Enough? The Man In The High Castle: Season Two
by Leah Schnelbach
Princess Mononoke to Return to Theaters in January 2017!
by Leah Schnelbach
Rereading Frank Herbert’s Dune: Dune, Part Six
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
In Absentia: Revealing The Rift by Nina Allan
by Niall Alexander
Rogue One Really, Really Wants You to Like It—And That’s A Problem
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Sleeps With Monsters: Glorious Space Fights
by Liz Bourke
Join Susan Dennard on Her Windwitch Tour!
by Tor.com
The Wheel of Time: English to Old Tongue Dictionary
by Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk and Maria Simons
This Morning in Publishing: December 20, 2016
by Stubby the Rocket
Caligo Lane
by Ellen Klages
Mon Dec 19
Mary Robinette Kowal is Bringing Alastair Reynolds’ Diamond Dogs to the Stage with Puppets
by Natalie Zutter
Rereading Katherine Kurtz: Camber the Heretic, Chapters 20-21
by Judith Tarr
How Rogue One Connects to the Star Wars Past, Present, and Future
by Michael Moreci
Revealing New Covers for K.W. Jeter’s George Dower Trilogy
by Tor.com
Miranda and Caliban
by Jacqueline Carey
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Classics That Would Make Great Video Games
by Chris Lough
It’s Not Just Science Fiction, It’s Life. Highlights from Tor.com’s Articles in 2016
by Tor.com
Rick Deckard Comes Out of Hiding in the First Blade Runner 2049 Teaser Trailer
by Natalie Zutter
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: The Vor Game, Chapter 16
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
6 Ways to Keep Your Star Wars Buzz Going After Rogue One
by Stubby the Rocket
This Morning in Publishing: December 19, 2016
by Stubby the Rocket
Moral Quandaries and Baby Unicorns: Revisiting the Dungeons & Dragons Animated Series
by Reneysh Vittal
Fri Dec 16
Celebrate A Good Old-Fashioned Victorian Christmas With Drunken Birds and Angry Goats!
by Leah Schnelbach
Holy Rewatch Batman! “The Sport of Penguins” / “A Horse of a Different Color”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Rogue One is the Most Beautiful Star Wars Movie You’ve Ever Seen, But It’s Also the Most Sparse
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Hulu Sets Premiere Date for The Handmaid’s Tale
by Natalie Zutter
David Tennant and the Rest of the New DuckTales Cast Adorably Sing the Theme Song
by Natalie Zutter
Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Assail, Chapter Twelve
by Amanda Rutter and Bill Capossere
The Holidays Bring People Together in the Sense8 Christmas Special
by Stubby the Rocket
Home for the Holidays: The Sibling
by Grady Hendrix
Hermione Granger Wants You to Do Your Own F*cking Homework
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
This Morning in Publishing: December 16, 2016
by Stubby the Rocket
Empire Games
by Charles Stross
Super Mario Bros Always Predicts the Next Jurassic Park Movie
by Stubby the Rocket
Thu Dec 15
Pamela Paul Shares How The New York Times Book Review Chooses Its Best Books of the Year
by Natalie Zutter
This Anglo-Saxon Version of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Might Be More Epic Than Beowulf
by Stubby the Rocket
A Slightly Convoluted Meditation on Stereotypes: Disney’s Zootopia
by Mari Ness
Check Out the Trailer for Mary and the Witch’s Flower, a New Film from Studio Ghibli Alums
by Leah Schnelbach
Daenerys’ Invasion of Westeros Detailed in New Game of Thrones Set Pic
by Stubby the Rocket
Warbreaker Reread: Chapter 9
by Alice Arneson
All of Tor.com’s Original Short Fiction from 2016
by Tor.com
The Witches of Winter
by Maria Alexander
This Morning in Publishing: December 15, 2016
by Stubby the Rocket
The Best YA SFF of 2016
by Alex Brown
Wed Dec 14
Martians Abroad
by Carrie Vaughn
“First We Survive, Then We Find Our Humanity Again”: The 100 Season 4 Trailer
by Natalie Zutter
By Their Smell Shall Ye Know Them: Cherie Priest’s “Bad Sushi”
by Anne M. Pillsworth and Ruthanna Emrys
Shirley Jackson’s Haunted Houses and Haunted Psyches
by Leah Schnelbach
Blizzard Entertainment Announces Book Publishing Label
by Stubby the Rocket
The Autobiography of a Traitor and a Half-Savage
by Alix E. Harrow
WIRED Envisions the Future in Its First-Ever Science Fiction Issue
by Natalie Zutter
Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Assail, Chapter Eleven
by Amanda Rutter and Bill Capossere
Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn to Star in Gotham City Sirens Movie
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
5 Recent Books That Can’t Stop Producing Alternate Timelines
by Stubby the Rocket
The Morning in Publishing: December 14, 2016
by Leah Schnelbach
All of Tor.com Publishing’s Fiction from 2016
by Tor.com
Tue Dec 13
Super City Cops: Avenging Amethyst
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
The Librarians Creator John Rogers to Serve as The Kingkiller Chronicle Showrunner
by Natalie Zutter
Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “The Lorelei Signal”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Join V.E. Schwab on Her A Conjuring of Light Tour!
by Tor.com
Chasing Shadows: “FeastWar”
by Vylar Kaftan
The Wheel of Time Reread Redux: The Shadow Rising, Part 10
by Leigh Butler
Poor Strangers: We Have Always Lived in the Castle and White is for Witching
by Em Nordling
New York Public Library and Macmillan to Launch Publishing Partnership
by Stubby the Rocket
Rereading Frank Herbert’s Dune: Dune, Part Five
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Sleeps With Monsters: 2016 in Retrospect
by Liz Bourke
Women of Harry Potter: Luna Lovegood’s Relentless Optimism
by Sarah Gailey
The Morning in Publishing: December 13, 2016
by Stubby the Rocket
A Beginner’s Guide to the Characters, Settings, and Timelines of Recluce
by Natalie Zutter
Mon Dec 12
Rereading Katherine Kurtz: Camber the Heretic, Chapters 18-19
by Judith Tarr
Communication and Faith in Arrival
by Michael Moreci
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: The Vor Game, Chapters 11-15
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Dream-casting Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn: The Final Empire
by Lyndsey Luther and Ross Newberry
The James Tiptree Jr. Book Club; or, A Mitochondrial Theory of Literature
by Brian Attebery
Sherlock Reveals His Darkest Secret in New Season 4 Teaser
by Natalie Zutter
Deadpool is a Golden Globe Nominee in the Same Category as Meryl Streep
by Natalie Zutter
Poetry, Rejection, and Looking Forward: A Conversation with L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
by Matthew Cheney
Authors, Texts, and Shifts in Meaning: The Storytelling of Westworld
by Alasdair Stuart
This Morning in Publishing: December 12, 2016
by Stubby the Rocket
Tor.com Staff Picks: Some of the Best Books We Got a Chance to Read in 2016
by Stubby the Rocket
Ask Me to Sing “Let it Go” One More Time, Elf.
by Leah Schnelbach
Fri Dec 9
Neil Gaiman Reads Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven”
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
This Week in the Arrowverse: Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Villains
by Molly Templeton
Oscar-Winner Paul Haggis to Direct Film Adaptation of Paolo Bacigalupi’s Ship Breaker
by Stubby the Rocket
Holy Rewatch Batman! “The Wail of the Siren”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Wesley Snipes Co-Authors Supernatural Debut Novel, Out in 2017 From Harper Voyager
by Stubby the Rocket
It’s Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Robot Christmas
by Leah Schnelbach
Brandon Sanderson Has Completed the First Draft of Oathbringer, Book 3 of The Stormlight Archive
by Tor.com
Deep Space Nine Holiday Parody is Here to Spread Some Cheer!
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Mad World, Revisited: Donnie Darko Turns 15
by Alasdair Stuart
War for the Planet of the Apes Premieres a Dark and Moody Trailer
by Leah Schnelbach
Light and Darkness in The New York Times’ Profiles on Astrophysicist Sara Seager
by Leah Schnelbach
The Trouble With Yetis: Do You Want to Build a Snowman?
by Grady Hendrix
Tony Stark Does Not Hug Peter Parker in the First Spider-Man: Homecoming Trailer
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
The Morning in Publishing: December 9, 2016
by Leah Schnelbach
Westworld and Superintelligence: Life Finds a Way
by Swapna Krishna
Agent Mulder Would Approve of This
by Stubby the Rocket
Thu Dec 8
John Glenn, 1921-2016
by Tor.com
First Preserved Dinosaur Tail Found in Amber — Covered in Feathers!
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Breaking Away from Your Programming: Wreck-It Ralph
by Mari Ness
Hearts of Darkness: The Short Fiction of Shirley Jackson
by Martin Cahill
Go On Home and Stop Smoking Scrolls: The Golden Child
by Leigh Butler
Battle Hill Bolero
by Daniel José Older
Warbreaker Reread: Chapter 8
by Alice Arneson
Musical Monsters: Revealing the Cover for Cassandra Khaw’s A Song for Quiet
by Tor.com
Agents of Chaos: Babylon’s Ashes by James S. A. Corey
by Niall Alexander
Cixin Liu Ponders Robotic Revolution and Human Purpose
by Stubby the Rocket
My Invisible Foes Fear Me: On Swordplay and Storytelling
by Chris Sharp
Whose Side Are You On? New Trailer for The Expanse Season 2
by Natalie Zutter
The Morning in Publishing: December 8, 2016
by Stubby the Rocket
5 Times We Earthlings Messed Up a Fantasy World
by Stubby the Rocket
Merry Krampus-mas!
by Stubby the Rocket
Wed Dec 7
Patrick Rothfuss and Cards Against Humanity Release Special Sci-Fi Pack
by Natalie Zutter
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season Four Midseason Finale: Ghost Skulls Roasting on an Open Fire!
by Alan Brown
Is A Real Utopia Possible? In Conversation with Malka Older, Ada Palmer, and Robert Charles Wilson
by Tor.com
Comes in Twelves: Christmas Days by Jeanette Winterson
by Lee Mandelo
Flipper & Cthulhu, Sitting in a Tree: James Wade’s “The Deep Ones”
by Ruthanna Emrys and Anne M. Pillsworth
Five Books Featuring Improbable Twists on History and Myth
by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
How Supergirl’s Alex Danvers Made a Queer Teen Realize She’s Not Alone
by Natalie Zutter
Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Assail, Chapter Ten (Part Two)
by Amanda Rutter and Bill Capossere
Speculative Fiction in Translation: 9 Works to Watch Out for in 2017
by Rachel Cordasco
Peter Parker Gets an Upgrade in the First Spider-Man: Homecoming Teaser
by Natalie Zutter
Casting Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicle
by Bridget McGovern
This Morning in Publishing: December 7, 2016
by Stubby the Rocket
The Story of Kao Yu
by Peter S. Beagle
Tue Dec 6
Going Home: Mercedes Lackey’s Tempest: All-New Tales of Valdemar
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Unpacking the Possibilities for the Kingkiller Chronicles with Lin-Manuel Miranda
by Alasdair Stuart
Mass Effect Novels by N. K. Jemisin and Catherynne M. Valente Coming in 2017
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “One of Our Planets is Missing”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Clockmakers Lie: Ian Tregillis’ The Liberation
by Alex Brown
Discovering Fantasy Through Science Fiction: Mr. Modesitt and Me
by Matthew Cheney
The VanderMeers Fully Fund The Octavia Project for 2017
by Leah Schnelbach
What You Need to Know Before Transformers: The Last Knight
by Alasdair Stuart
Whatever Walked There, Walked Alone: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
by Lee Mandelo
Social Media Becomes Surveillance in the First Trailer for The Circle
by Natalie Zutter
Rereading Frank Herbert’s Dune: Dune, Part Four
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
The Future’s So Bright: Last Year by Robert Charles Wilson
by Stefan Raets
Sleeps With Monsters: Cloaks and Daggers
by Liz Bourke
George R.R. Martin Gives Updates on The Winds of Winter and Picks His Favorite Warriors
by Leah Schnelbach
Expanded Course in the History of Black Science Fiction: Mama Day
by Nisi Shawl
Mon Dec 5
Rereading Katherine Kurtz: Camber the Heretic, Chapters 16-17
by Judith Tarr
There’s a Place: Five Stories High, Edited by Jonathan Oliver
by Niall Alexander
Rereading the Vorkosigan Saga: The Vor Game, Chapters 9 and 10
by Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer
Skullsworn
by Brian Staveley
Westworld Season 1, Episode 10: “The Bicameral Mind”
by Theresa DeLucci
Felons in the Forest: Adam Thorpe’s Radical Take on Robin Hood
by Matthew Keeley
We Have a New Trailer for The Mummy!
by Stubby the Rocket
Jeff and Ann VanderMeer Announce a New Anthology, The Big Book of Classic Fantasy
by Leah Schnelbach
Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice: The Best Books of 2016
by Tor.com
A Beginner’s Guide to the Fantasy Worlds of L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
by Natalie Zutter
Sat Dec 3
The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Trailer is Here!
by Stubby the Rocket
Fri Dec 2
Merriam-Webster Tackles Worldbuilding
by Natalie Zutter
Fiction Affliction: Genre-Benders for December
by Tor.com
This Week in the Arrowverse: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes
by Molly Templeton
Holy Rewatch Batman! “Ring Around the Riddler”
by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Your First Look at Elisabeth Moss as Offred in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale
by Natalie Zutter
All the Birds in the Sky and Ghost Talkers Among the Best SFF Audiobooks of 2016
by Stubby the Rocket
The Horrors of Healthcare: William Woolfolk’s The Sendai
by Grady Hendrix
Malazan Reread of the Fallen: Assail, Chapter Ten (Part One)
by Amanda Rutter and Bill Capossere
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in Talks to Apparate to Broadway
by Natalie Zutter
New Brandon Sanderson Interview on Google Discover Drops Stormlight 3 Hint
by Stubby the Rocket
Revealing Kat Howard’s An Unkindness of Magicians
by Tor.com
Five Books About Human Horror
by J.A. Rock
This Morning in Publishing: December 2, 2016
by Stubby the Rocket
Gateways in the Library: The Beast Master by Andre Norton
by Alan Brown
Thu Dec 1
Aurora Australis: The Year’s Deep Breath Before the Plunge
by Alexandra Pierce
Did You Win NaNoWriMo? Let Agent Eric Smith Guide You Through Your Next Steps!
by Leah Schnelbach
Harry Potter Parties Are Happening in U.S. Barnes & Noble Stores Next Week
by Emmet Asher-Perrin
Hunting for Honey in the Franchise: Disney’s Winnie the Pooh (2011)
by Mari Ness
Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Picks for December
by Tor.com
Logic Makes Monsters: Announcing Mandelbrot the Magnificent by Liz Ziemska
by Carl Engle-Laird
Warbreaker Reread: Chapter 7
by Alice Arneson
The Christmas Soundtrack to The Lost Child of Lychford
by Paul Cornell
(Almost) Every SFF Adaptation Coming to Television and Movie Theaters!
by Natalie Zutter
This Morning in Publishing: December 1, 2016
by Stubby the Rocket
The Towers of the Sunset by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. is the Tor.com Ebook Club Pick for December!
by Tor.com